' The Arrival of Enlightenment '...

Does enlightenment come all of a sudden?,, Or do we have to work slowly for it by degrees?....... The answer varies with the case concerned.. Most need time to fit and equip themselves, for the glorious moment of insight,, but a few receive it in a day................. It must be remembered that it does not actually happen in time but out of it,, in the great Stillness.......... The man does not know the absolute final truth a second before--and then it is all there............... How soon it can settle down in him, will also vary with different persons--it was a few hours in one case, but three years in another. ............................................................... -- Notebooks Category 25: World-Mind in Individual Mind > Chapter 2: Enlightenment Which Stays > # 53 Paul Brunton